Mohave County miner., 1887-05-21
Our Eastern Letter.
NEW YoRg, May l4th, 1887.

| difficulty the man met. with who had d
mine for sale in New York, Boston Of
Philadelphia. But this business, like all
others, has bright spots now and then
| At present st. Louis seems to be that big
bright spot. and this is due to the success
Of the Granite Mountain Co.
| About ten days ago l met Cole Sann
| ders and said: when you were in Phil.
lipsbnrg, in 1868, working the Speekied
Trout Mine did you ever hear OF the Gran.
its Mountain"
He replied: why, yes. Don't you
recollect where my cabin stood, on the
side oi that big granite mountain"
Eyes, / do"
"Well, their claim ran down to within
| fifty feet OF that cabin, and was Offered
one-half interest for doing assessmen,
work, and finally l could have had il fol
$40. Now sec what il is doing, s24o ,0ot
per month in silver"
II is useless TO mention the yicissitudet
OF this property and how it was nearly
abandoned. Plummer stuck to it and
deserves his good fortune.
| So Granite Mountain booms ST. Louis.
Still, this has proven an iqHus fat1 &c
hundreds of others. can name twenty
men o! my acquaintance who have tried
10 place mines there, only to break all
TO pieces.
AS against their big success will put
the wreck OF the Sheridan, dragging
many down with it.
ST. Louis has now grappled with Lost
Basin, in your section, and may they Sue,
ceed, is the earnest prayer OF every hon.
est miner.
In Boston can name no great success
in the shape OF a mining company, and
Philadelphia is in the same fix.
New York, in connection with San
Francisco, has several good paying mines,
as the Homestead and Ontario, but this
does not benefit the outsiders, for the
Haggin and Tevis crowd don't aid them,
but throw cold water on them.
As an instance, | will name the old
Moss Mine. A steady, strong attempt
has been made to place this property. 1t
| took four middle men to get IL before an
English syndicate, who, alter monkeyiny
with it for four months, finally wired that
they were afraid OF Arizona. A second
attempt was made in New York. II was
| placed before banker who ION the side)
sought information, and finally rejected
it. lie said, Uncle Billy Lent con-
demns it, so does one 'Rabbett,'" Unjust
have been jack rabbit "and the report
OF Sam McMasters." Now we all know
that Sam McMasters "coppered'' on
everything in Arizona, and Lent never
saw the mine This latter one said, "it
would run down into base sulfurets. -
| don't all gold mines have suifurets p
| But the report OF Haggin and Teyis' great
expert damned it deep, deep down.
| While Uncle Billy has operated In mines
Tor thirty years Or more, from British
Columbia to New Mexico, still he is not a
miner or mill man in any sense Of the
word, and OF late years has hardly let
| New York.
Well, it wont do to tell all yon know~or
| 70 bore man TO death on one string, 10
we will leave Silver King, Tombstone.
| Hexic0 and all that kind and turn to
Buffalo Bill.
lie opened on May lst and has had a
iuli house ever since. He has dragged
the Queen from her hole in Scotland and
worked" (by cominandD before her and
! fifteen OF twenty other big bugs. The
entire English peerage bas attended
time and again and ia peop'e have actu.
ally had to be kept bick at the point oI
the bayonet. His receipts have averaged
$4,000 per day clear profit, and the
chances are that the Wild West Co. will
have TO import Indians, cowboys, Mexi
ems, bronchos. etc, TO replace the al
ready worn ont ores.
There is one thing that is quite incom
prehensibIe 70 the average Briton, the
fact that race OF savages can exit,
among 100000 English speaking peo
Pile. They don't nm ierstand it. Again
many OF the people think that man can
get scalped on the outskirts OF New York.
Well, indeed he can. II ne runs agains,
the Whyo gang, or the Stable gang, or
others OF the one hundred or more gangs
tOushs who infest this metropo.
liz, two OF whom have '' WV" Ae
for brutal murder).
SALIENT POINTS.